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216(3W XON. ROBERT FERN LYONS,jM M. P. P., grain dealer, stockVS> raiser and agriculturist, Carberry,Man., was born July ist, 1856,in Leeds County, Out. His parentsare Michael and Ann (Gardner) Lyons,now living at Carberry, Man. Afterleaving the public schools, he attendedthe Grammar School at Farmersville,Ont. He was then clerk in a generalstore, for some five or six years, and in1878, removed to within three miles ofCarberry, where, with his brother, J.H. Lyons, he conducted a general storeand farmed for about four years. Onthe advent of the C. P. R., he started ageneral store in Carberry, which hesold out in 1886. Since then, Mr.Lyons has devoted himself to farming,stock raising and the exporting of grain.He owns a large elevator and a farm ofsixteen hundred acres, within two milesof Carberry. His four brothers, John,Andrew, Joseph and Harmon, are alsolocated in the neighborhood. In 1892 hewas elected M.P.P. for the electoral districtof Norfolk, Man., on the Conservativeticket. In religion, he is a Methodist,and also belongs to the MasonicFraternity. On April 2oth, 1888, hemarried Jennet, daughter of ThomasHume, Esq., formerly of Hamilton,